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Downhill (2020)

★ 5.2 · 304 ratings on TMDB

A Different Kind of Disaster Movie.

Downhill poster★ 5.2

Barely escaping an avalanche during a family ski vacation in the Alps, a married couple is thrown into disarray as they are forced to reevaluate their lives and how they feel about each other.

DirectorJim Rash, Nat Faxon
CastAlex Macqueen, Ammon Jacob Ford, Giulio Berruti, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Julian Grey, Kristofer Hivju
GenresComedy, Drama
The emergence reading

Downhill keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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